popularity contest

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   competition (real or figurative) for popular support

   Broadercontest

Questions about popularity contest

What does popularity contest mean?

popularity contest means "competition (real or figurative) for popular support".

Is popularity contest a common word?

popularity contest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.